11. Bonnie “Prince” BillyI See A Darkness
I like a lot of his records, but it’s one of the most concise. He goes back to many songs that are in other records. The cover is black and white, and there is something about the absence of colour that I find interesting; a bit like an etching, and just pencil.
It teaches a lot about what it is to write songs – even if I don’t write songs, per se, because I don’t sing. It’s this idea of someone in his kitchen, thinking of a song, and creating it, it’s always been fascinating. Even as a child, I remember listening to the radio, or listening to a song, and going: how do they do that? How does it come to their mind and travel through the radio and go into my kitchen? How can that be? To me, it’s still a bit magical. I See A Darkness, for me, it’s very negative. I see the title, but we live in a very dark time. Sometimes. I can truly say I see the darkness too, you know?
